CVE-2018-10546

Description

An issue was discovered in PHP before 5.6.36, 7.0.x before 7.0.30, 7.1.x before 7.1.17, and 7.2.x before 7.2.5. An infinite loop exists in ext/iconv/iconv.c because the iconv stream filter does not reject invalid multibyte sequences.

Category

7.5
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 3.0 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 21.53% Top 5%
Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory ubuntu.com Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory php.net Vendor Advisory php.net Vendor Advisory php.net
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104019 third party advisory vdb entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040807 third party advisory vdb entry
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76249 patch vendor advisory issue tracking
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4240 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2018-12 third party advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3646-1/ third party advisory vendor advisory
http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php patch vendor advisory
http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php patch vendor advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-01 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180607-0003/ third party advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00005.html third party advisory mailing list
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2519 vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2018-10546?
CVE-2018-10546 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2018-10546?
To fix CVE-2018-10546, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2018-10546 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2018-10546 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~22% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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